Middleville, NY
How exposed is Middleville to wildfire?
Middleville's 325 buildings earn a 7th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Middleville at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Middleville's building exposure, zone by zone
325 buildings are counted in Middleville, and 75.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Middleville ranks
There's little gap between Middleville's 7th national percentile and its 11th percentile inside New York, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Middleville ranks 29,446 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,963 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,144 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Middleville and the insurance market
At the 7th national percentile, Middleville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 75.4% of Middleville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Middleville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 325 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Middleville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Middleville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.